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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Two years ago I took a Flora Bowley class on intuitive painting that has changed they way I look at creating art. The process begins by creating a glorious mess, messing it up some more, and more again -- and then finding the art inside that noise. The challenge is to go at it without preconceived notions -- not to impose what you want to see on the canvas but to find the image hiding there.

Here is the final painting, which I titled Night Garden.

It started out looking very different.

First it looked like this...

And then it looked like this

And after a while it looked like this

You can see the underpinnings of the final painting in the above stage.